A B C D E G H I K L M N O P R S T W Z Zeus, Munich, Antikensammlungen 596 There are two kinds of searches possible for this web site. The first type, which is comprehensive, involves just entering a mythological character’s name in the search box over the left menu … Continue reading Subject tags for mythological characters
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, National Museum 15354: ivory relief from Sparta with Prometheus and eagle R.M. Dawkins, The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (1929), pl. 100, 1 ♦ Olympia B4992: bronze shield-band relief with Prometheus and eagle P. C. Bol, Olympische Forschungen … Continue reading Page 157 (with art)
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, National Archaeoloigcal Museum, 16384: Attic black-figure skyphos-krater by Nettos Painter, with Herakles, Prometheus and eagle Image from Dan Hinman-Smith Wikimedia Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F1722: Attic black-figure column krater with Herakles, Prometheus and eagle Otto Jahn, Archäologische … Continue reading Page 155 (with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Eretria, Archaeological Museum: terracotta statuette of horse/man from Lefkandi (Kentauros?) Wikimedia ♦ Paris, Cabinet des Médailles M.5837: Cycladic sealstone, archer and horse/man (Herakles and Kentauros Nessos?) Cabinet des Médailles ♦ Athens, National Museum 15350: ivory relief plaque from … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 145, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pindar, Pythian 4.119 The divine centaur called me by the name Jason. Greek Text ♠ Pindar fr 166 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 121, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975. ♠ Homer, Iliad 2.742-44 Polypoetes, staunch … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 144, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paestum Museum: three metopes from the Heraion I at Foce del Sele, with Herakles defending Hera? and two pairs of Silenoi advancing with stones raised Soprintendenza Archeologia per le provincie di Salerno e Avellino ♦ Wurzbug University, Martin … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 137, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 24.602-09 For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters and six lusty sons. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 95, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pherekydes 3F120 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 92, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. ♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr 10a.20-24 MW (The Catalogue of Women) fr 10a.20-24 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford. ♠ Hyginus, … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 94, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.592-93 and Ares led them and the queen Enyo, she bringing ruthless Din of War. Greek text ♠ Homer, Iliad 13.518-19 Howbeit this time again he missed him, and smote with his spear Ascalaphus, son of Enyalius, and through the shoulder the … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Ares (page 81 upper, with art)
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